adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to Sweden.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Swedish
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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swē'dĭsh
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/ˈswiː.dɪʃ/
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homophone: sweetish (flapping)
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CMU ARPABET: S W IY1 D IH0 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland, and by a very small minority in Estonia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Swedish.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: East Scandinavian
adjective
Meaning 4
of or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the Swedish King
- Swedish punch
- Swedish umlauts
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Scandinavian, Scandinavian language, Nordic, Norse, North Germanic, North Germanic language
History
Etymology
From Swede + -ish. Cognate with Dutch Zweeds, German Schwedisch.
Across languages
Translations
211 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: Sweeds — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Albanian: suedez — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Arabic: سُوَيْدِيّ (suwēdiyy) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Armenian: շվեդական (švedakan) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Asturian: suecu — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Azerbaijani: isveç — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Basque: suediar — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Belarusian: шве́дскі (švjédski) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Belarusian: швэ́дзкі (švédzki) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Bengali: সুইডিশ (suiḍiś) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Bengali: সুইডীয় (suiḍiẏo) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Bulgarian: шве́дски (švédski) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Burmese: ဆွီဒင် (hcwidang) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Catalan: suec — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Chechen: шведийн (šwediı̇n) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Chinese Mandarin: 瑞典的 (Ruìdiǎn de) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Czech: švédský — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Danish: svensk — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Dutch: Zweeds — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Esperanto: sveda — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Estonian: rootsi — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Finnish: ruotsalainen — of or pertaining to Sweden
- French: suédois — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Georgian: შვედური (šveduri) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Georgian: შვედეთის (švedetis) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- German: schwedisch — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Greenlandic: svenskeq — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Greenlandic: svenskisut — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Hawaiian: Kuekene — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Hebrew: שוודי \ שְׁוֶדִי — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Hindi: स्वीडिश (svīḍiś) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Hindi: स्वीडियाई (svīḍiyāī) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Hungarian: svéd — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Icelandic: sænskur — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Ido: Suediala — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Interlingua: svedese — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Irish: Sualannach — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Italian: svedese — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Japanese: スウェーデンの (Suwēden no) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Karelian: ruočči — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Kazakh: швед (şved) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Khmer: ស៊ុយអែត (suyʼaet) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Korean: 스웨덴의 (seuwedenui) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Kyrgyz: швед (şved) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Lao: ສະວີເດັນ (sa wī den) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Latin: suecus — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Latvian: zviedru — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Latvian: zviedrisks — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Lithuanian: švedų — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Lithuanian: švediškas — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Macedonian: шведски (švedski) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Mongolian: швед (šved) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Norwegian Bokmål: svensk — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Norwegian Nynorsk: svensk — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Occitan: suedés — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Old English: Swēonisċ — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Persian: سوئدی (su'edi) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Polish: szwedzki — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Portuguese: sueco — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Romanian: suedez — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Russian: шве́дский (švédskij) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Northern Sami: ruoŧa — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Scottish Gaelic: Suaineach — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Serbo-Croatian: шведски — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Serbo-Croatian: швеђански — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Serbo-Croatian: švedski — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Serbo-Croatian: šveđanski — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Slovak: švédsky — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Slovene: švédski — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Spanish: sueco — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Swedish: svensk — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Tajik: шведӣ (švedi) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Tatar: швед (şwed) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Thai: สวีเดน (sà-wii-den) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Turkish: İsveçli — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Turkish: İsveç — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Turkmen: şwed — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Ukrainian: шве́дський (švédsʹkyj) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Uyghur: شۋېتسىيە (shwëtsiye) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Uzbek: shved — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Venetan: svedexe — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Welsh: Swedaidd — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Yiddish: שוועדיש (shvedish) — of or pertaining to Sweden
- Afrikaans: Sweeds — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Arabic: سُوَيْدِيّ (suwaydiyy) — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Armenian: շվեդերեն (švederen) — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Basque: suediar — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Dutch: Zweeds — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Esperanto: sveda — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Estonian: rootsi keel — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Finnish: ruotsinkielinen — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Georgian: შვედური (šveduri) — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- German: schwedisch — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Hawaiian: Kuekene — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Hindi: स्वीडिश (svīḍiś) — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Hindi: स्वीडियाई (svīḍiyāī) — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Icelandic: sænskur — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Ido: Suediana — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Italian: svedese — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Japanese: スウェーデン語の (Suwēden-go no) — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Karelian: ruočči — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Latvian: zviedru — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Latvian: zviedrisks — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Norwegian Bokmål: svensk — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Norwegian Nynorsk: svensk — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Polish: szwedzki — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Portuguese: sueco — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Romanian: suedez — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Russian: шве́дский (švédskij) — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Scottish Gaelic: Suaineach — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Serbo-Croatian: шведски — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Serbo-Croatian: švedski — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Spanish: sueco — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Swedish: svensk — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Venetan: svedexe — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Welsh: Swedeg — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Yiddish: שוועדיש (shvedish) — of or pertaining to the Swedish language
- Afrikaans: Sweeds — language
- Albanian: gjuha suedeze — language
- Antillean Creole: syédwa — language
- Arabic: سُوَيْدِيَّة (suwēdiyya) — language
- Armenian: շվեդերեն (švederen) — language
- Asturian: suecu — language
- Basque: suediera — language
- Belarusian: шве́дская мо́ва (švjédskaja móva) — language
- Belarusian: шве́дская (švjédskaja) — language
- Bengali: সুইডীয় ভাষা (suiḍiẏo bhaśa) — language
- Bulgarian: шве́дски (švédski) — language
- Catalan: suec — language
- Catalan: suedès — language
- Chechen: шведийн мотт (šwediı̇n mott) — language
- Chinese Cantonese: 瑞典文 — language
- Chinese Cantonese: 瑞典話 /瑞典话 — language
- Chinese Mandarin: 瑞典語 /瑞典语 (Ruìdiǎn yǔ) — language
- Corsican: svedese — language
- Corsican: svidese — language
- Czech: švédština — language
- Danish: svensk — language
- Dhivehi: ސުވެޑިޝް (suveḍiš) — language
- Dutch: Zweeds — language
- Esperanto: sveda lingvo — language
- Esperanto: sveda — language
- Estonian: rootsi keel — language
- Faroese: svenskt — language
- Finnish: ruotsi — language
- Finnish: ruotsin kieli — language
- French: suédois — language
- West-Frisian: Sweedsk — language
- Galician: sueco — language
- Georgian: შვედური (šveduri) — language
- Georgian: შვედური ენა (šveduri ena) — language
- German: Schwedisch — language
- Greek: σουηδικά (souidiká) — language
- Greenlandic: svenskisut — language
- Haitian Creole: syedwa — language
- Haitian Creole: syèdwa — language
- Hebrew: שבדית (shvedít) — language
- Hindi: स्वीडिश (svīḍiś) — language
- Hindi: स्वीडियाई (svīḍiyāī) — language
- Hungarian: svéd — language
- Icelandic: sænska — language
- Ido: Suediana — language
- Indonesian: bahasa Swedia — language
- Interlingua: lingua svedese — language
- Irish: Sualainnis — language
- Italian: svedese — language
- Japanese: スウェーデン語 (Suwēden go) — language
- Karelian: ruočči — language
- Korean: 스웨덴어 (seuwedeneo) — language
- Central Kurdish: سْویدی (siwîdî) — language
- Northern Kurdish: swêdî — language
- Latin: lingua Suedica — language
- Latvian: zviedru valoda — language
- Latvian: zviedru — language
- Limburgish: Zwèdsj — language
- Lithuanian: švedų — language
- Low German: Sweedsch — language
- Luxembourgish: Schwedesch — language
- Malagasy: soedoa — language
- Maltese: Żvediż — language
- Mingrelian: შვედური ნინა (šveduri nina) — language
- Norwegian Bokmål: svensk — language
- Norwegian Nynorsk: svensk — language
- Occitan: suèc — language
- Occitan: suedés — language
- Polish: szwedzki — language
- Portuguese: sueco — language
- Romanian: suedeză — language
- Russian: шве́дский (švédskij) — language
- Northern Sami: ruoŧagiella — language
- Northern Sami: ruoŧŧa — language
- Southern Sami: ruoŧagiella — language
- Scots: Swadish — language
- Scottish Gaelic: Suainis — language
- Serbo-Croatian: шведски — language
- Serbo-Croatian: švedski — language
- Slovak: švédčina — language
- Slovene: švédščina — language
- Spanish: sueco — language
- Swahili: Kiswidi — language
- Swedish: svenska — language
- Tigrinya: ስዊድንኛ (səwidnəña) — language
- Turkish: İsveççe — language
- Ukrainian: шве́дська мо́ва (švédsʹka móva) — language
- Ukrainian: шве́дська (švédsʹka) — language
- Venetan: svedexe — language
- Vietnamese: tiếng Thụy Điển — language
- Vietnamese: tiếng Thụy-Điển — language
- Volapük: Svedänapük — language
- Welsh: Swedeg — language
- Yiddish: שוועדיש (shvedish) — language
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